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orvalax
February 10th, 2005, 01:38 AM
I very new to Linux and I was wondering if it was possible to get an simple game from PopCap Games (http://www.popcap.com/launchpage.php?theGame=bookworm&src=findagame) to work on Wine or Winex. I found that you have to pay for Cedega and I was told Wine won't run it cause it need directx. So I'm completely confused about how to go about getting this fun little game to run.

william
YokoZar
February 10th, 2005, 04:24 AM
I very new to Linux and I was wondering if it was possible to get an simple game from PopCap Games (http://www.popcap.com/launchpage.php?theGame=bookworm&src=findagame) to work on Wine or Winex. I found that you have to pay for Cedega and I was told Wine won't run it cause it need directx. So I'm completely confused about how to go about getting this fun little game to run.

william
Wine can run DirectX just perfectly, except for DirectX 9 (which should be working in a couple of months.)

You should use the up to date Wine packages at http://www.winehq.org/ - check the howto and the downloads page for install instructions (click the Ubuntu link).
orvalax
February 10th, 2005, 10:12 PM
Alright, I'll try that out, Thank you.
valadil
February 10th, 2005, 10:37 PM
Bookworm works fine in firefox on my laptop. Once you get the java and flash plugins set up it should just work.
orvalax
February 10th, 2005, 11:35 PM
Yeah it works in Firefox, but I bought it for a family member and I want to try to get the downloaded version to work, its a registered copy. Its runs on windows just fine but I get a wierd error message when I run it.
orvalax
February 13th, 2005, 02:53 AM
I was ably to install wine flawlessly and then while the game was installing it gave me an error message saying that a link couldn't be made some where and the when I try to run it it give me this long error, some error in threas 9 or somthing like that.
YokoZar
February 17th, 2005, 08:29 AM
I was ably to install wine flawlessly and then while the game was installing it gave me an error message saying that a link couldn't be made some where and the when I try to run it it give me this long error, some error in threas 9 or somthing like that.
Wine is still very much a work in progress. It's likely that your application uses some Windows function Wine hasn't yet implemented. Sorry.